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upon her true shape are permanently scarred by the
experience.
Hel is a fierce guardian of the dead, cold and
unforgiving. It is prophesied that she will not let even
Baldur, the fair and beautiful God, depart her halls
once he arrives in them. The Norse Underworld is
cold, and Hel, as its queen, is colder yet.
In modern times, Hel becomes the archetypal ice
queen. She has assumed roles as diverse as financial
advisor, lawyer, judge and prison psychologist on one
hand and gothic beauty queen, model, singer and
undertaker on the other. She never deigns to accept
disguises that are beneath her. She is never anyone’s
servant, no matter what mortal aspect she puts on.
Hel’s Scions are few and far between. Few men
can stand to be with her long enough to allow her
to father a child, and those who stick around are
rarely comfortable with the resulting children. Yet
Hel’s halls are crowded with powerful and ghostly
servants, at least some of whom she lends to her
children when it serves her interests.
Associated Powers: Epic Appearance, Epic
Manipulation, Death, Jotunblut
Abilities: Command, Control, Fortitude,
Investigation, Melee, Presence
Rivals: Freya; Baron Samedi, Dionysus, Izanagi,
Osiris, Quetzalcoátl
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Description: Loki the Sky Traveler is a God
of fire and mischief. Traveling in disguise and
sometimes even shapeshifting, he is capable of being
on anyone’s side—or no one’s. He once sheared
off Sif’s hair as a practical joke, before tricking the
dwarves into replacing it with hair of spun gold.
He kidnapped Idun and her apples of immortality,
only to rescue her by trickery and bring her back
to safety in Asgard. He is blood-brother to Odin,
yet the son of giants, and the Midgard Serpent and
Fenris Wolf—the two most fearsome titanspawn in
the Norse cosmology—are his children. The stories
say he will be bound under the earth with poison
dripping into his face because of the betrayals he’s
committed against the Gods, and that he will side
with the Titans at the end of the World.
In modern times, Loki’s sharply angled face
haunts boardrooms and BDSM clubs. His tight
goatee is equally at home in undercover police
operations as in revolutionary camps. He is never
in charge, but he’s always the clever and capable
assistant who makes things happen. For all that,
many see him as cowardly even in his cleverness, for
he never seems to be around when things go sour.
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The double-cross is an art form to Loki, and few